The New York Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1876, Page 4

€ NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, 2 sdetielh a THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Twelve dollars per year, or one dollar per month, free of postage. All business, news letters or telegraphic despatches must be addressed New York Henarp, PSS LRRLIERS PHILADELPHIA OF FICE—NO.112 SOUTH SIXTH STRE LONDON OFFICE OF THE HERALD—NO, 46 PLE EET. PARIS OFTICE—AVE LVOPERA. Subscriptions and advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. VOLUME XL. 7 AMUSE BROOK DEBORAN, at 8 P.M, UNCLE To's wood WILD BILL, at 81°. M. GILMO! CONCERT, at 8 P.M. PIPTIL _THEATRE. MONEY, at 8 P.M. Cog! blan, THEATRE & |. Mr. Bangs and Mrs. Agnes WALLAG! TRE, THE MIGHTY DOLLA roM. Mr and Mrs LEAN THE FO CLOUDS, ats P. HOUSE. GRA 2. ISH COMIC O 8. Ontes, at SP. M, NIBLO'S GARDEN, BABA, at 8 P.M trv Y, at P.M. PARISIAN | sr. M. H SAN FRANCISUO MINSTRELS, ash. ML. RELLY & LEON'S MINSTRELS, usp. M FAG ATRE. BURLESQUE, OLIO A CK, at 8 P.M, CHATEAU MABILLE. VARIETY, at 87, M. : THIRD AV if THEATRE, CARIETY, at SP. M o VARIETY AND D AMER ANNUAL FAIR. WITH CAN INS trom our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cool and cloudy, wilh high winds and, poss Tuvrrow W: puens.— We print this morning a letter from Alexander IL. Stephens, of Georgia, contin- uingadiseussion between himself and Thur- low Weed in reference to the attitude of cer- tain Southern members of Congress on the question before the war, The con- 3 interesting and affords material for a just appreciation of the great events leading to the war. t Tur sa Wan.--Our correspondence from Constantinople confirms the theory that the haughty attitude of Turkey is not the result of policy, but is simply the natu- ral expression of the old Turkish party, which ngw has control. The survey of tho situation shows that the Moslem still hopes slayer) to force the European provinces and depen- dencies to submit to his iron rule. It in- eludes an abstract of Mr. Gladstone's cele- brated pamphlet on the Bulgarian massacre and the responsibility of the English govern- ment. Reuiciovs Linenty ix Sram is inter- preted to mean liberty to think, but not to worship. The liberty to think always exists, and it may be exercised in the Vatican itself as in a French Assembly. Re- ligions liberty is rightly the liberty to wor- ship openly, and it was this freedom that the Spanish government was thought to have granted. But the Mayor of San Fernando has closed the door of a Protestant chapel om the ground that ‘external manifestations ire prohibited by the constitution.” The protests of England’ and Germany will be probably made more earnest by this singular vet. ¥ Francr,-—Onr French ‘Tue Drrorvnation etter gives an interesting sketch of politi ind social events. Ono im- portant question considered is the de- srease or standstill of the population. While most of the other European countries louble their populations in periods less France at her present rate of nd deaths would require over three It is natural that this state should alarm thoughtful men, and “il economists should be earnestly The weakness 19 not rtain to retard the development of undred years. of afiair that polit sockin only Uses. mani nres and commerce in France, but may be feltin future wars. This stunting of the growth of the nation numerically singularly contrasts with the marvellous energy and success of France in the payment of the German But immense revenues will not compensate for the de- war fine. cline of population, and the situation is an- other illustration of the lines— IM tares the land, to hastening ils a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay, Ovn Cavaenes Yesterpay.—-Rain, instead of eping good Christians from church, should incite them to attend it, for it is one of the drawbacks to modern religion that it usually involves little personal sacrifice. jance of a duty is afterward tin proportion to its difficulty, and those who went to church yesterday felt the satisfaction which comes from the conscious- aess that they were not merely fair weather Jevotees. Most of the places of worship were well filled anda number of excellent ser- mons were delivered. The Rey. Mr. Hatfield addressed young men upon success in life, | and the Rev, Father Macauley described the raising of the widow's son—a subject which was in harmony with the discourse of the Rev. Father Farley upon the value of prayers for the dead. Charity was treated by the Rev. Mr. Haynes, and Dr, Deems, at the Church of the Strangers, had the usually large as- sembly. The Baptists, who are used to water, did not seem to mind the rain, and Dr. Armitage preached upon love as the essence of Christianity. Other able dis- courses are reported in our columns else- where, | of the case. | that the | flict j ple will decide in this election. | the election of Mr. Tilden and a democratic NEW YORK HERALD MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1876—WITH SUPPLEMENT. Can Mr. Tilden Do If He Should Be Elected? The singular line of argument in Mr. Sey- mour's letter declining the democratic nomination for Governor may, perhaps, de- serve more attention than it has yet re- ceived. The substance of that argument was that it would be safe for the country to elect Mr. Tilden to the Presidency because he would be so curbed and hemmed in that beyond the routine duties of his office he could d@nothing without the permission of his political opponents. The fact is as Mr. Seymour stated it, but his inferences may admit of qnestion. Certain it is that for the first two years of his administration, at le President Tilden would he confronted with a republican Senate, and that no bill could be passed which the republican party might think repugnant to its policy or its interests. We suppose Mr. Seymour in- tended his argument to apply prin- cipally to the protection of negro rights in the South, the point on which the republican leaders in this canvass display more solicitude, real or feigned, than on any other. Mr. Seymour's argument would bo conclusive if the repub- lican legislation for enforcing tlre constitu- tional amendments had successfully passed the scrutiny of the Supreme Court. If the enforcement acts had been sustained by the judiciary, if they were still standing in the statute book as valid laws, there could be no successful reply to Governor Seymour's argument. It would then be entirely true that Mr. Tilden as President, supported by a democratic House of Representatives, could do nothing to impair the legal protection which the republican party during its long years of power has erected around the rights of the colored citizens of the South. But this is by no means the present state fallacy, because it ignores the great fact that a republican Supreme Court has decided Enforcement law is in con- with the constitution and void. With a democratic House, scouting the theory of federal protection, and a demo- cratic President armed with the veto, the shattered legislation could not be re- habilitated, and the negroes would remain exposed to the tender mercies of the State governments. What the republican party demands is new legislation to take the place of the void Enforcement law; but the elec- tion of Mr. legislation for the protection of the negroes impossible. With arepublican President and a republican House there would, however, be no difliculty in passing an Enforcement law which might pass the ordeal of the Su- preme Court. Mr. Seymour's argument assumes, contrary to fact, that the present state of the law is satisfactory to republi- cans, and that they only need to maintain existing legislation to insure the stability of their policy. If this wer so the election of a democratic President and House could not disturb the security of the negroes so long as there existed a republican Sen- ate with power to block hostile leg- islation. But the real state of the case is the same as if Congress had not legislated on the subject. The republican party seeks power to rebuild what the Supreme Court has demolished. Mr. Seymour's argument rests on the false assumption that the repub- lican legislation is still in force. If it were still in force his reasoning would be unan- swerable, and the negative action of a re- publican Senate would be a complete guar- antee of negro rights. But, with the pre- existing defences broken down by the high- est judicial tribunal, the republican policy can be maintained only by new legislation, which requires the joint action of the Sen- ate, the House and the President. If Mr. Tilden is elected there will be no new legis- lation on the subject, and the new President will not lifta finger for the protection of colored citizens. We are not sure that the South would not be soonest tranquillized by leaving it to settle its own difficulties and manage its own affairs. This is certainly the average senti- ment of the democratic party, and Mr. Sey- mour showed a Inck of political courage when he not only shrunk from avowing it, but resorted to transparent sophistry in a yain attempt to prove that the election of Tilden would make no difference in the action of the federal government. The real truth is that if Tilden is elected there will be no further interference in the South, whereas if Hayes is elected, with a republi- can House, there will be a new Enforcement law. Mr. Seymour's argument is calculated to befog and obscure a plain issue. That issue is, Shall federal interference in tho Sonth be stopped or continued? Instead of evading this issue the democratic party must meet it boldly. ‘The country may think the non-interference policy to be right. There isno doubt ayreat deal to be said in its favor, But the issue must be squarely pre- sented without skulking or subterfuge. So far as the Southern question is concerned, Mr. Seymour's argument is sophistical and decep No republican nor any democrat can be indifferent to the question whether we are to havea new Enforcement law, and that is one of the questions which the peo- So far from House making no difference, it would put an end to the republican policy of interference inthe Southern States. This is one of the most important questions of the canvass, and each party must fight under its own colors and let the people decide after a full under- standing of the question. There are other important subjects to pertinent. Among these civil service reform holds the highest rank. The election of Mr. Tilden would be propitious to this capital reform. Electioneering professions on such a subject are of no value, but the state of things which would exist with a democratic President to make nominations for office, and a republican Senate to reject his nominations at pleasure, would be favor- able to non-partisan appointments. ‘Lhe re- publican party is in possession of all the offices, and a President can make neither re- movals nor appointments without the consent of the Senate. When both the President and the Senate belong to the same political party the tenure of office law amounts to nothing, because the Senate seldom refuses to confirm the proposed successor of a sus- Mr. Seymour's argument is a’ Tilden would render further | | ical. pended officer, and this ready consent makes the power of suspension equivalent to that of removal. Buta republican Senate would not be fo complaisant to a democratic Presi- dent. “It would not permit officers to bo turned ont except for substantial reasons. The republican Senators would not be able to get their own friends appointed by a demo- cratic President, and would haye no motive to treat his nominees with tenderness. There would be no place either for party favor- itism or personal favoritism in. appoint- ments requiring the concurrence of a demo- cratic President and a republican Senate, and this mutual check would bea pretty good security against bad appointments and against removals for reasons merely polit- Mr. Tilden’s election would therefore be favorable to civil service reform, quite irrespective of the sincerity of his pro- fessions on this subject: On the third great question, that of the currency, the harnessing of parts of the team to different ends of the wagon, to nul- lify each other's strength by pulling in con- trary directions, would obstruct the return to specie payments. If the Democratic Na- tional Convention had nct perpetrated the folly of demanding a repeal of the Resump- tion act, and Mr. Tilden had not in- dorsed that stupendous folly in his let- ter of acceptance, the difference of | political complexion between the two branches of Congress would have been no hindrance to sound legislation. If the inflationists lind not succeeded in put- ting their manacles on the democratic party and its candidate,there would have been no difficulty in passing a wise law for resump- tion of specie payments. The currency would have ceased to bea party question. The hard money democrats and hard money republicans could have acted in concert. But this is made impossible by the inde- scribable fatuity of Mr. Tilden in indorsing that part of the St. Louis platform. If Mr. Tilden is elected there will be a deadlock between the Senate and House, and nothing will be done; but if Mr. Hayes and a republican House are elected there will be a reasonable prospect of efficient legislation for ‘fulfilling the promise of resumption in 1879. The republi- can party is committed to resumption at that date, and if it should have undivided con- trol of the next Congress it can easily make the pledge good if it chooses. It will have every motive to do this if it should possess ; the power. There can be no great difficulty in devising methods and means, for prices are already down to the specie level, and the simple funding of greenbacks at the rate of four millions 2 month would bring them to par with gold long before January, 1879. But the democratic party, by rejecting that date and insisting on its repeal, has pre- cluded itself from supporting measures for fulfilling the pledge which it repudiates. That act of repudiation is the capital blunder of the democratic canvass and will do more than all other causes together to prevent the election of its candidates, Progress of the Our readers cannot complain of not hav- ing received a timely warning of the ap- Great Cyclone. proach of the great cyclone, as well asa | prediction of its course. The storm has come in all its devastating fury, and it has followed the track over which we announced it would, in all probability, pass. After whirling westward with extraordinary ra- pidity over the West Indies the cyclone passed over the centre of the island of Cuba and attained the apex of its westward curve near Key West, in, the Gulf of Mexico. Thence it began to move along the east coast of Florida, sweeping every part of the South Atlantic and Eastern Gulf States with characteristic violence. De- spatches from Norfolk, Va., announced that the cyclone had reached that point, accom- panied by a perfect rain deluge and a gale which attained a velocity of over fifty miles an hour. Since that information reached us communication has been entirely sev- ered with Southern and Southwestern points, owing to the prostration of the telegraph wires all over those regions, Our observa- tions in New York, however, furnish us with the necessary information to enable us to follow accurately the path of the storm and to trace its probable course, At about eight o'clock yesterday morning the cyclone centre was about two degrees to the southward of Cape Hatteras and on the ~Atlantic coast line. The barometer at that point indicated 29.32 inches of pressure, with the temperature at sixty- eight degrees and the velocity of the wind varying from twenty-four miles per hour to fifty miles. The pressure at Norfolk, Va., at the same time was 29.79 inches ; at Balti- more, 29.99 inches; at Philadelphia, 30.07 inches; New York, 30.17 inches; Boston, 30.44 inches, and in New Brunswick as high as 30.51 inches. This showed such an extraordinary variation of pressure along the coast and an increas to the eastward, that it was certain the storm must move n an almost northerly direction and traverso the Middle States. At five o'clock * last evening the pressure at New York fell to 29.90 inches with heavy rains and the wind velocity increas- ing to fifty miles an hour. All communica- tion with southerly points had ceased. At midnight the pressure fell to 29.82, and there is a certainty that the storm is now to the westward and likely to move into the St. Lawrence Valley. How tux Goop News Was Canntep,—The public will read with amusement and admi- ration the story of how Captain Jack, a which Mr. Seymour's reasoning seems more | special hee cae of the Henatp, beat the gyv" | ernment in bearing the news of General Crook's Indian victory. It was a race which he won, not only by his endurance and pluck in riding three hundred and twenty- five miles in six days, but by strategy and skill. The account. of the fight, which we published yesterday, was on the wires before the government reports; but we do not think that anybody will complain because Captain Jack beat the United States. Tue Crty Is Crowpxp with strangers and the hotels cannot provide sufficient ac- commodation, The storm increased the dis- comfort of the thousands of homeless visitors who had no places to lay their heads. For- tunately it was Sunday, and many who had no rest at night were able to enjoy a refresh- ing sleep at church. The Conditions of Peace in Europe. The demand of Turkey is to be guaran- teed from danger on the side of Servia— from danger in the form of a regular repeti- tion of the revolt of more or less dependent subjects of the Sultan; and in the form of foreign invasions for the support of which Servia, if held inimically to the Sultan, would serve as 9 great natural bastion on the Turkish frontier. On her part the material points have been formulated, which, it is be- lieved, will secure her if the points are ac- cepted and made part of the law of Lurope by the recognition of the great Powers. On the other hand, and as against the Sultan, the extreme demands are that he shall so re- form his administration in the Chris- tian provinces of his dominion that rebellion will pot be the necessary and desperate remedy of oppressed populations deprived of every other resort ; and that he will so live up to the treaties to which he assents that no occasion can arise for the invasion of his territories by neigh- bors whose mutual jealousies will neutralize their hostility, except when the need of pro- tecting men of their own race from wanton butchery merges their jealousies in a larger common sympathy. ‘These are the extreme positions on either side in the pending ne- gotiation ; for since the Sultan's government has formulated his terms it may be safely said that peace negotiations are fairly on foot. The facts that it was thought would secure the good conduct of the Sultan and the peace of that part of Europe were also formally digested and laid down some time ago in the famous Berlin memorandum, which had the sanction of Russia, Germany and Austria, and which would have been accepted at Constantinople, but the re- fusal of England to sign it encouraged the Ottoman government to believe that it would have her support in opposing the pressure mainly directed by Russia ; where- fore it was rejected. Since the war began, and discussion sought a safe issue from it gather than a solid ground tor the perma- nent prevention of hostilities, but little has been heard of what might be required by Europe of the Ottoman government and a great deal of what Turkey would demand and Servia might concede in the settlement of their immediate issue. On this narrow field the drift of opinion has been determined by the direction of success, and it was at one moment well nigh conceded that the bitter | judgment of ‘ver victis” might be recorded against Servia, and that the burden of settlement must be upon her. The Porte’s order for a cessation of hostilities comes, however, at a moment when the tide that appeared so irresistible two weeks ago seems now trembling for the ebb. The consideration must therefore arise that Ser- via will be as much entitled to guarantees as the Sultan, and this will restore the whole subject to the ground of the Berlin note. Europe was notin danger of forgetting at any moment that Turkey only exists through the compromises of her neighbors in her behalf, and this seems to have been especially re- membered at Berlin, where the Sultan's peace conditions are characterized as a chal- lenge to the great Powers. Thanks, there- fore, to the suddenly improved aspects of Servia’s position, the peace negotiations will not skim the surface of the diflicult issues of this conflict, but will go deep, and the winter will see the Eastern question deter- mined on a good basis, or, failing that, the biggest war this generation has seen in Europe will open in the spring. Protessor Huxley. This eminent naturalist, whose visit to this country, like that of Professor Tyndall three or four years back, is regarded as an évent by lovers of science, will deliver a course (if three can properly be called a course) of lectures this week at Chickering Hall, beginning this evening. When Pro- fessor Tyndall was here the immense hall of the Cooper Institute was engaged for his lectures and was filled to its utmost capacity. Professor Huxley is reputed to be even more eloquent and attractive, and if his spoken style be at all equal to his writ- ten style he ought to be the most taking speaker on _ scientific sub- jects among living men. There are few English writers in any de- partment of letters who possess such rich gifts of expression, and we might wonder, as Lord Jeffrey did respecting Macaulay, “where he picked up such a style.” Professor Huxley is master of one of the most perspicnous, vigorous, apt, various and luminous styles ever written—not % style which toys with language to show its paces, but one which moves straight on to deliver its meaning with vivid clearness, * His three lectures at Chickering Hall, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings, will be devoted ‘to the new scientific doc- trine of development; a doctrine which is supposed to be in conflict with theological be- liefs, and arouses a great deal of religious op- position. We presume few Catholics will care to attend them, not that Professor Huxley's views are more hostile to Catholitism than to other forms of Christianity, but becanse he has seen fit in his own country to make aggressive and intemperate assaults on the Catholic faith, He may refrain from such impetuous attacks in his lectures here, but as nobody can foresee whether he will or not people who do not wish to hear their faith insulted will naturally stay away. Professor Tyndall kept clear of such faults of taste, and that is perhaps the reason why he commanded so much larger andiences than are expected for Professor Huxley. It is not merely bad taste, but a departure from the methods of science for a naturalist to assail theological opinions. Scientific truth must rest solely on scitntific evidence, and science ought, in its own interest, to ignore everything outside of its own do- main. If it can establish its doctrines by irrefragable proofs the world will accept them, and men in other departments of thought will sooner or later modify their views in conformity therewith, as has been done on those points in which astronomy and geology were at first thought to be at variance with revelation. ‘The new doctrine of development must be received or rejected on its own proper evidence, and its adyo- cates make a mistake whev they go out of their path to picka quarrel with theologians. People who are wilisng to learn what the | new scientific tenet of development really is, as expounded by its chompions, instead of 4 accepting the caricatures of it put forth by its opponents, may spend a few profitable hours in listening to Professor Huxtey. It is a rare opportunity, which will not often recur, for hearing a man of first rate scien- tific eminence expound his own views. Mr. Robeson and the Navy. The indignity offered to the navy in the order of Secretary Robeson farloughing three or four hundred officers is not diminished by the fact that it prohibits any officer from wearing his uniform while on furlough. Placing a mah on furlough in the navy has always been a punishment inflicted on worthless officers or those whom a court martial could not reach. Perhaps there is no country on the face of the earth where such an indignity could be offered to a set of men who served their country so well in its hour of peril. It is well for Farragut and Dupont, Foot and Dahlgren that they fied before this humiliation was imposed on them. Porter, Rowan, Levy, Almy, Preble, Nichols, Gnest, Bryson and Fairfax are all men who perilled their lives more than once and whose names are regarded with affection by the people, These officers, and many others of less note, have fallen under the ban of Robeson's displeasure, for, notwithstanding his ingenious order, in which he speaks of ‘the disagreeable dut» imposed upon him by the action of Con- gress,” no one will believe that this act was not inspired by malice and revenge. There was no necessity for it. The amount ap- propriated by Congress was ample to pay all the officers of the navy full pay for nine months and a half. And it is only three months before Congress could meet to remedy the deficiency. Withont doubt there will be a searching investigation into this matter when Congress does meet. There is a general impression among members in reference to the order of Mr. Robeson and asuspicion that it was issued really to se- eure payment for a number of contractors who might prove troublesome witnesses in case of non-payment. In the meantime the gallant officers of the navy remain hu- miliated, degraded from their ranks, and will scarcely feel it an honor to wear again the uniform which Robeson has attempted to soil. Our Public Credit. It is not long since as a people we were at sixes and sevens, to usea homely phrase, We may now find a satisfaction in the fact that we are coming down to threes and fours. A few days ago we were informed by a tele- gram that our British friends were selling their three per cents and consols and invest- ing in our new fourand a half per cents. They are at last willing to trust American credit to give them fifty per cent increase of income. London banks are selling con- sols for the purpose of investing in our new loan. The comfort in’ this fact is that the world is beginning to see us as we are and to accept our credit at its real value. This is especially seen in a brief extract from the London Times, which prints in a recent number an article worthy of republication in America. ‘Everything at present,” says the Ties, ‘favors the issue of the loan. Money is superabundant, investments yielding a steady four percent are scarce and the credit of the United States never stood higher. Add to this the fact that as against the five per cent funded loan the new four and-a half per cents will have an advantage in the date of their redemption, and there seems no reason to doubt that the latter will be rend- ily placed at a good price. The funded five per cents are redeemable at the option of the government after 1881, and are therefore sub- ject to be sooner or later after that date transformed into a four per cent stock, which is the only other denomination that the United States government is at present authorized to issue. The four and a half per cents now to be issued, on the other hand, mature absolutely in fifteen years from Sep- tember 1 of the present year. There is thus acertainty of fifteen years in the one case and of only five in the other; for, although the six per cents of 1887 fall next to be re- deemed, it is not improbable that by 1881 that redemption may be accomplished and the way prepared for an operation with the five per cent funded loan. Many people may therefore be tempted to exchange their five percents for fonrand ao half per cents for the sake of the longer immunity from change, should the price be sufficiently tempting.” We congratulate our people on the steady advance of our credit in the money markets ofthe world. It shows that in spite of the wrangles and dissensions in our politics we are marching steadily ahead, and al- though one great party talks about “reform” and corruption and would change every de- partment of the government in the interest of “purity” we are enabled to redeem bonds which bear six per cent interest and find abundant purchasers for new ones at four andahalf. This reduction of the interest on our debt from six per cent to four and a half is one of the triumphs of Grant's ad- ministration and will be remembered to the President's credit long after the detractions of the hour are forgotten. Hatretr’s Porxst Reer—Hern Garr.— The absorbing interest that now attaches to the magnificent feat of engineering which is to be accomplished in a few days by the destruction of Hallett’s Point Reef demands at our hands the fullest explanation of the details of this wonderful work. We there- fore present to the readers of the Hzrarn to-day a full description, illustrated by carefully prepared plans and sketches, the character of the reef and its influence on the Hell Gate currents, the progress of the exca- vation and the nature and objects of the exploding apparatus by which it is intended to complete the demolition of one of the chief obstructions in the Hell Gate channel. Considering the magnitude and difficulty of the work itself and the success which has attended every stage of its progress we are encouraged to look forward to the near future for a complete clear- ance of our channels and harbors of sunken rocks and reefs, and even of ex- tensive mud banks, that now render naviga tion so dangerous. Year by year we are ad- vancing toward the accomplishment for New York of her glorious destiny. | ‘The Indiana Canwar& Indiana is to the democrats as important a State as Ohio is to the republicans. If tve democrats carry Indiana it is not certain that they will carry the country, but if they lose Indiana in October, then comes the del- uge. They are therefore putting forth their utmost strength to elect Mr. Williams to the Governorship. Our Louisville correspondent gives a clear and, thorough exposition of the present condition of the canvass. According to his opinion the democracy ore ahead in the race and have met with more success than their opponents in the mass meetings. Mr. Voorhees, Mr. Julian, Mr. Pulitzer and Governor Hen- dricks have been very active in speak- ing. The opinions of the leaders as given by our correspondent deserve study. Mr. Pulitzer believes the bulk of the German vote will be cast for the democratic ticket, and does not think that Mr. Schurz has much influence with his countrymen, The republicans, accord- ing to Mr. Watterson, have more money and a better system than the democrats and ara working with increased energy to elect Mr. Harrison, under the direction of Senator Morton. The ‘bloody shirt,” the colonization of negroes, the grangers, the greenbacks, the Kilpatrick letter, Carl Schurz, the Germans are all mixed up in this fight, like the nondescript issues of war at Donnybrook Fair, The ob- ject of the republicans is plain—they wish to elect Governor Hayes in October, so as to make the November election the mere record of a previous decree. The democrats, on the other hand, defend Indiana so as to leave the Presidential question open, and to secure encouragement and hope for the party. throughout the country. Southern Men in Congress. A Western republican organ recounts the number of members of the present House of Representatives who served in the rebel army, and complains that so many of them should now be sent to Congress and that a number of them were made chairmen of committees, It speaks of ‘Confederate supremacy,” and tries to alarm its readers and to excite their hostility to Southern men, not onthe ground that these have miscon- ducted themselves in Congress, but on the score that in the late war they served in the rebel army. This is a very unworthy plea, and is, be sides, more calculated to offend decent and thoughtful republicans than to win votes. The war is over. What the best interests of the country demand is that all parte shall send their ablest men to Congress, In the Southern States, as everybody knows, and as General Sherman and other Union officers long ago recognized, the brains and ability did go into the rebel army. It is very natural, therefore, that men who served in that army should now be chosen to go ta Congress. It is not only natural but right. Brains, ability, influence, character, must tell in every community. and oyghtto. It isthe fault of the republicans themselves that the brains of the Southern States are now 80 generally ranged on the democratic side. With only fairly good management a large part of the most influential Southern pole iticians and statesmen would to-day be firm republicans. But they have been rejected by the republican leaders, and this is one of the blunders which the wiser republicans, among them Governor Hayes himself, now openly recognize. To cast suspicion upos such men is not good policy. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Bea greon 18 the fashinable color. Genet Jones 1s visiting in Vermont, ‘oodford is going to stump the South. The Prince of Wales is going to Glasgow. Mr. Schurz 1s very lame from his recent fall. Dean Stontey is the guest of the Duko of Argyle. The Prestdent’s mother is visiting Covingvon, Ky, Six hundred persons in Paris aro finger-nail doctora, John T. Reymond is in Chicago trying to Sellers corn salve. The Atlanta (Ga.) Commonwealth eulogizes J. Wilkes Booth. The Australian black naturally takes tos horsoand saddle. In Chicago Mr. Hessellschard !s a democrat, A kind of hard shell, The Irish team proved unErin’ marksmen.—Boston Post. A Pat re-mark. Mr. Stephens has been fishing afd his lines have falien in pleasant places, For the séte of St. Louis $50,000 worth of flowers were sold in Paris in one day. Ingersoll was born at Lee, Mass. But he has ever since been tacking to windward, Emerson's daughter keepa a donkey, a practical fel. low with sense beyond his ’cars, A fall of rain of ono inch in depth sends down a hun dred tons of water on an acre of ground, re In some New England villages several gin mills have resumed work, on account of low water, Says a Southern journal :—“The victory for Blaine is ablow.” Yes; but Ben Hilt is a blower. Mimisters complain that there are few marriages, The unmarrted fellows may be seen in batches. James Parton will open the Dartmouth College lew taro course with “The Continental Congress.’? Lord Derby says he is cautions about the Bulgartan atrocities. Pity the Tarks had not been as cautions, George Eliot:—*‘A great deal of what passes for likelihood in the world 18 simply tho reflex of a wish,” Old Blue Jeans Williams, candidate for Governor of Indiana, used to write his pame like the gable end of a sawback. Mr. Moody has supplanted Mr, Sankey with Mr, Stebbins asa singer, hoping to get over Jordan on Stebbins’ tones. German manofacturers say that German children are not permitted to work when they are young enough to acquire dexterity. Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte is in England, at Bridgewater, studying the Somerset dialect. Does he mean to turn a Somerset? Wendell Phillips constantly repeats his figures of speech, and now tails back upon putting a boat on Niagara and expecting it not to shoot over, The Empress Eugénie has purchased as a winter reste donce the villa ia Florence which has hitherto beop oceupted by the Grand Dnehoss Maria of Russia. The forest of Fontainebleau grows more and more in favor with Franch artists and the number of paintert in the neighborhood has largely incroased ot lata In Memphis tho other day a frog jumped ont of a broken cobble stone which had been used in the stroot for fifteen years, Ho i heen called Sitting Ball frog A Vermont paper says thatthe pure, sweet cider it rattling through the mill trougha Which Probably makes the boys pleased with the rattle and ticklea with astraw, “If,” says.an English crite, “the Weish bards somo. times disagree among themselves, their lyrical onte bursts have a fine eflect in producing harmony among the Welsh population in general, ”? One of the principal French prisons contains works of the foliowing anthors:—seott, Dickens, Fenimore Cooper, Thiers, Guizot, Sammtine, Mme. de Sévigns, Mine, de Genlis, Jules Verne and Dumont d’Urvitle, Pall Malt Gai “If oat jadges cannot or will bot assuine ax part of their existing goneral diseretion the power of forbidding questions to be put which are useless, offensive and cruel, it ought to be conferred om them by express enactment.”